Europe

Over the last decade, Helsinki has established itself as one of Europe's leading hubs. Finnair took advantage of Finland's exceptional geographical position. At the very northern tip of Europe, Helsinki offers much shorter flight times to Asia than other airports....

In accordance with Czech insolvency law, the national airline CSA has been in receivership with the Prague Municipal Court since the end of February. The court has officially recognised the company's bankruptcy. The application for receivership was lodged following the end of an extraordinary moratorium, and after...

Around 230 million international travellers - including intra-Europe - in 2020, compared with over 743 million a year earlier. Like the rest of the planet, Europe's tourism industry will have suffered the repercussions of the Covid-19 crisis. In its report on the state of tourism in 2020 and the future prospects for this sector,...

While La Compagnie and its all-business class flights are now a thing of the past, the idea of transatlantic routes specialising in premium traffic remains. JetBlue's arrival in Europe in summer 2021 is eagerly awaited. The US carrier is due to begin flights from New York JFK and Boston to airports in...

The pandemic is wreaking havoc on the European continent. And there are growing fears that the mutant virus originating in the UK could spread very quickly, putting pressure on the continent's hospital capacity. Hence the new tightening of the screws by the European Commission. But with a view to...

Finnair is offering its customers greater choice and flexibility by introducing a new one-way fare structure valid on its intra-European and domestic flights. This pricing structure has been in force since 12 January 2021. "We want to offer our customers more choice and flexibility. Removing the complexity of the rules...

In turmoil since the end of 2018, low-cost carrier Norwegian Air has finalised its restructuring plan. The carrier wants to emerge from bankruptcy protection before the end of March. The carrier had entered bankruptcy in November 2020 under the Irish Protection Act. This...

The woes of the national carrier Air India are in fact an opportunity for India's private airlines to step up their international activities. Low-cost carrier IndiGo has stepped up its international presence in recent years. The carrier mainly serves the Gulf region, South East Asia and even Istanbul. But it is above all...

Sounds like a Christmas present. According to the consultant OAG, which analyses airlines' capacity on a week-by-week basis, the week of 21 December saw the total number of seats offered flirt with 61 million. This represents a week-on-week increase of 1.8%. Such a figure has not been seen since...

Since 15 December, there has been a succession of containment measures across Europe. While France has decided to relax some of its containment rules, its European neighbours are moving in the opposite direction. Above all, the discovery of a new strain of covid-19 in the United Kingdom has led to the suspension of flights from Europe...

60 years ago, they were the pride of Europe. From the end of the 50s to the very beginning of the 80s, TEE (Trans-Europ-Express) trains criss-crossed Europe, a true symbol of night service, luxury and comfort. Some of you may still remember the Mistral on the Paris-Nice line or the Capitole on the Paris-Toulouse line. The...

The Covid crisis has had a lasting impact on Air Astana's business. Kazakhstan's national airline, which had become a specialist in air transport between Europe and Asia, has been forced to completely review its strategy. At a recent conference, the CEO of Air Astana, Peter Foster, explained that "the market in South-East Asia is at the point...

IATA has just revealed in a study that Covid has profoundly changed air connectivity in the world's major cities. The number of city-to-city connections has declined from over 19,300 to fewer than 6,800 in April 2020. The pandemic has led to an upsurge in...

The Radisson Hotel Group plans to at least double its long-stay offering in Europe, Africa and the Middle East by 2025. Currently, the number of serviced flats offered by the group in the EMEA region - 5,400 units in 45 establishments in operation or under development - represents almost...

The hope of an upturn in international travel with the development of vaccines is giving some airlines wings. This is the case for AirAsia and Turkish Airlines. At the end of November, Asia's largest low-cost carrier and one of Europe's aviation giants signed a cooperation agreement that will enable the combined sale of flights...

Olivier Jankovec, Director General of ACI Europe, made a bitter assessment last week at the virtual congress of European airports. The overall figures, including data up to 15 November, show that passenger traffic at European airports fell by 81 %. A symbolic threshold was crossed on 15 November....

The return of curfews and population reconfinements in an increasing number of European countries should result in a further slowdown in air traffic. And exacerbate the risk of insolvency for many regional airports in the coming months. This is the alarmist assessment of ACI-Europe, which predicts the disappearance of airports altogether...

A lifeline for air traffic weighed down by the Covid pandemic? That's what European airports, particularly in France, are hoping for with the launch of antigenic tests to detect Covid. The antigen test is carried out in the same way as a PCR test, using swabs taken from the nostrils....

It's not just France that is toughening its stance and imposing curfews in eight major cities. This weekend, other countries followed suit. Belgium imposed a four-week curfew on Monday 19. However, the curfew is less restrictive than in France, starting at midnight and ending at 5am...

With 29 establishments, the Meininger chain has gone from being a local German chain to a European chain in a short space of time. "The chain began in 1999 with hotels in Berlin, but over the last five years we have taken the next step with a strategy of European expansion. We have moved our head office to London...